ah. but british history-knowers is, as i said in my edit above, equivocal, as it could be a) people who know about british history, and thus include your american academics; or b) british people who know about british history; or c) british people who know about history of other parts.
nonetheless the thrust of your post, that it is stupid to say that only e.g. mongolians can discuss mongolian history, is of course a sound point.
So you're not going to actually reply, you're going to go off on a tangent. Nice one.You do realise nearly 3 million more people went into polling booths and ticked the box by Clinton's name than the one by Trump's name, right?
Of the African Americans who did vote, 82% of men and 94% of women went for Clinton. If you're looking at a group to "blame," how about the 53% of white women who voted Trump (as opposed to 43% for Clinton), despite ample awareness of his anti-women views, misogyny and history of sexual assaults.
I find it curious that so many outspoken liberal / left / Bernie-or-Bust / 3rd party supporter white men are so quick to blame Trump's win on Clinton being a "poor" candidate and on Black people for not turning up to vote. But those same white men seem really, really reluctant to apportion blame with the majority of white women where you don't have to speculate because they actively voted for Trump.
Here's a few pieces that unpick the "whys" behind the 53% of white women voting Trump, and
White women voted for Trump in 2016 because they still believe white men are their saviors
Why Did White Women Vote For Trump? Look At Kellyanne Conway’s Sexual Harassment Story.
Why White Women Voted for Donald Trump
Why white women voted for Trump, in their own words
The quiet racism behind the white female Trump voter
Comedian Nikki Glaser Blames Oprah for White Women Voting Trump Into Office
And for those so quick to dismiss voter suppression as a factor in fewer African Americans casting votes, I think that's pretty telling, too.
North Carolina GOP Brags Racist Voter Suppression Is Working—and They’re Right
Early-voting data confirms that blacks in the swing state aren’t voting as much as in 2012—not for a lack of enthusiasm or effort, but because of rules designed to stop them.
We Can’t Talk About the Black Vote in the 2016 Election Without Discussing Voter Suppression
Wisconsin, the state in which Gov. Scott Walker signed a voter ID law that disproportionately affects poor blacks, was won by Donald Trump by 30,000 votes — while as many as 300,000 people were prevented from voting. And 60,000 fewer people voted in Milwaukee, the city with 70% of Wisconsin's black population.
When a discriminatory piece of legislation was passed in North Carolina, then subsequently struck down by the federal courts, Republican-controlled county elections boards found other methods to suppress minority voters, such as cutting the number of locations available to vote at, and restricting the hours, both contributing to huge lines, designed to dissuade voters from participating in the election press. And it worked: Black voters were down 9% statewide in this election, and Trump won by fewer than 200,000 votes.
The real reason black voters didn’t turn out for Hillary Clinton — and how to fix it
GOP voter suppression efforts are the key to combatting a changing demographic that trends blue
The low turnout for Clinton had little to do with her black support and everything to do with the effective campaign of voter suppression run by Republicans, one that has decimated accessible options for people of color.
Harvard researcher Stephen Pettigrew found that African-Americans were six times more likely than members of demographic groups to spend more than an hour in line in order to vote.
Part of the problem is the resources allotted to polling places in predominantly black communities. Those districts have fewer poll workers to assist voters and guide them through the process and have fewer voting machines on hand to process voters in a timely manner.
Rather than making voting easier for minorities and low-income people, Republicans have engaged in a “Don’t Get Out the Vote” campaign designed to keep these populations from the voting booth.
This action was enabled by the Supreme Court’s 2013 decision to nullify Section 5, related to preclearance, in the Voting Rights Act of 1965. That portion of the law, passed under the President Lyndon Johnson administration to prevent voter suppression on the basis of race, requires that states with a history of such practices gain approval from U.S. Department of Justice before making any changes to voting regulations. The absence of that federal oversight has allowed numerous states to restrict early voting hours, which is aimed at targeting voting among people of color.
If Republicans hope to keep winning elections, it’s likely that they will continue to attempt to keep people from voting. If Democrats hope to combat that strategy, they should advocate that voters have more ways to cast ballots.
just kidding!
My bold, I saw some polling late on support for a Muslim Ban in Europe. In the UK it is more than twice as high as this figure. In other parts of Europe over three times. Of course this might reflect growing hysteria after recent Salafi-Jihadi attacks on The Continent, the realities of a large refugee low/ageing population and a lot of far-right agitation but also probably greater American respect for freedom of religion.
he was a sailor when he waalked upon the water, and he spent a long time wanking in his lonely wooden tower
I have never heard location used as a reason for a different complexion being put on facts before
Rather different to facts changing purely on location
Which 88% are you talking about ?
Yes, yes I did.
He doesn't even attempt to believe those things though, he just 'knows' that those 3 million votes were illegal / fraudulent, and that the protestors are all getting paid by Soros. I reckon he really thinks this, just like he must think his suits look good and his wife likes him.
I recall reading about rather a lot of hatred for distant chiselling Scots making a Big House fortune out of supplying the slave plantations.
Yes. You seem to have missed a post of mine.
Condescending is a British word which means talking down to someone.
This is a true thing well put.
